Alpha 0.12 Update
Hello, been a while since the last update. Let's get a few things out of the way.
Check out the bolded text if you wanna TL;DR but still get all the key information.
Update on the Game
Shaded CG:
I ran a poll a while ago and I can say that the you guys totally want that sweet shading action. The votes were scaled from '0' to '10', '0' being you despise the idea with a passion and '10' being you are all for the idea with all your heart. I've added up the scores and averaged it out of the 597 total votes and it received
a score of '7.62'. The majority of your votes are above '5', 86.6% of your votes to be exact.
So based on those results, I can safely say that this shading idea is a go-go.
To reiterate what's going to happen,
the shading will ONLY be added to CG scenes, it will be used in a subtle, out-of-mind way to simply enhance the images, give characters mass and volume, and to ground them in the environment. I will make sure that
it will not stray away from the art style that most of you admire. I won't be the one shading the scenes, though I may have to experiment
I will if not have made
a milestone for $5000 for a colorist who will solely work on turning flat CG scenes into shaded ones. Part of their job will also include having to manipulate the established layers and folders in Photoshop to match the original images and replace them all exactly the same. Yes, it's as tedious as it sounds and it's going to be a ton of work.
I'm not taking anyone for the role yet but when the time rolls around, I'll be open to any artist/ colorist who is interested.
Stay tuned for that number.
H-Scene Hyperspeed Bug:
If you have played 0.11, you may have noticed a thing during
Mom's H-scene in the bedroom where it looks as if you're skipping through the whole thing or something similar? I myself have never actually seen what it looks like but I've had many cases where that scene in particular is being rushed through involuntarily.
I have NO idea what's up with that. There isn't anything in the actual code that triggers it to go so fast, all the timings are similar to other scenes with iterations since there are more frames in this particular animation.
Let me know if that happens to you or not so I can get an idea if it happens to everyone or just some people.
Plan for 0.12:
I did a few misc art during bug fixing week but now I'm in the writing stage. In addition to writing,
We're working on improving some of the key features of the game such as
getting rid of the RNG related encounters or at least coding them in a way so it's better RNG.
The skill stat system and how that will all play out so it's more of a passive build up rather than a grindy build up.#ThankRNGeesusForCheats.
Besides those, the main story focus will now be on
Mom and Sister.Rubae is still and will be the primary writer for Sister and I will work on adding more content to Mom's story so it flows better.
More stuff are in the works but I don't think I can add it all in this update. I shouldn't get too ahead of myself.
Update on the Creator
A More Balance Schedule:
I've working on improving my schedule so that I have a more balanced life to live. That would mean 8-9 hours of work, 5-6 days a week, depending on my mood, 8 hours of sleep (which is already natural for me), and the rest is whatever. Before I was doing nearly every week, 7 days of work, ranging between 6 to 14 hours each day, so yeah.
That need change. I'm sure you guys understand wholeheartedly. I guess I forgot how to live a life outside of A Town Uncovered since I worked so hard on making and maintaining it a viable career for myself these past 9 months.
Wrist and Forearm Pain:
I have wrist and forearm pain, I know what perverts are thinking. Yes, I was washing too many dishes. No, I think it was because I did a lot of garden chores and Ikea Furniture building that it's now feeling pretty tender and sore.
I took a day break but I still gotta take it easy.
New Tablet:
In lighter news, thanks to you guys,
I upgraded my work equipment from my 5-6 year old Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch to a Wacom Mobile Studio Pro. I still need to get a bluetooth keyboard for it so until then, I can't work efficiently. But I absolutely love it. It really motivates me to work on unrelated A Town Uncovered artworks in my down time as well since I primarily am an artist before I started game dev.
Survey:
A while ago,
I created a survey to get a better idea of who's playing A Town Uncovered. If you wanna chip in to the statistics, it'll only take you 1-2 minutes.
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Thanks for all the support, perverts! Whether you pledged in 0.01 or even today, it all means SOO much to me! Our project has been growing at a pretty consistent, rapid rate compared to the other Top 50 Adult Game Patreon Creators on Graphtreon and it really frikkin blows my mind with how awesome you guys are!
I love you. GeeSeki, out!